Abe Ehrlich (1886 - 1946)

Born 5 Mar 1886 in Georgia, USA

Died 22 Oct 1946 at age 60 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA

Abe Ehrlich is buried in Oak City Cemetery.

Biography

Abe Ehrlich was born in Bainbridge, Georgia, in 1886. He was the son of Henry Ehrlich and Sarah Breitenbach. The family was living in Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia, in 1900.^[1]

Abe registered for the WWI draft in Louisiana.^[2]

By 1920, he was living with his sister, Mindell, and her husband and kids, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Name: Abe Ehrlich

Event Type: Census

Event Date: 1920

Event Place: New Orleans Ward 12, Orleans, Louisiana, United States

District: ED 214

Gender: Male

Age: 34

Marital Status: Single

Race: White

Relationship to Head of Household: Brother-in-law

Birth Year (Estimated): 1886

Birthplace: Georgia

Father's Birthplace: Germany

Mother's Birthplace: Georgia

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Sylvan Kronheims Head M 37 New York

Mindell Kronheims Wife F 37 Georgia

Myron Kronheims Son M 13 Louisiana

Abe Ehrlich Brother-in-law M 34 Georgia

Ruth Hunter Servant F 24 Mississippi

Lilly Hunter Servant F 22 Mississippi ^[3]

Abe married Gertie Breaux on May 4, 1940 in Louisiana:

Name: Abe Ehrlich

Event: Marriage

Event Date: 03 May 1940

Event Place: Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Gender: Male

Age: 54

Birth Year (Estimated): 1886

Father's Name: Henry B Ehrlich

Mother's Name: Sarah Breitenbach

Spouse's Name: Gertie C Breaux

Spouse's Gender: Female

Spouse's Age: 54

Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1886

Spouse's Father's Name: John P Breaux

Spouse's Mother's Name: Laura Kutchemthal ^[4]

Their union produced no children.

Name: Abe Ehrlich

Event Type: Draft Registration

Event Date: 1942

Event Place: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Residence Place: New Orleans, Louisiana

Gender: Male

Age: 56

Nationality: U.S.A.

Race: White

Complexion: Dark

Employer: Self

Birth Date: 05 Mar 1886

Birth Year (Estimated):

Birthplace: Bainbridge, Georgia, U.S.

Relative's Name: Mrs. Abe Ehrlich

Relationship to Registrant: Wife

Eye Color: brown

Hair Color: grey

Height: 5'8"

Weight: 122 ^[5]

Abe Ehrlich died in 1946. ^[6] Burial was in the Oak City Cemetery in Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia, in the Ehrlich family plot. He shares a grave marker with his brother, Sigo.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3NZ-V4N : accessed 5 May 2016), Abie Ehrlich in household of Henry Ehrlich, Militia District Bainbridge town, Decatur, Georgia, United States; citing sheet 13A, family 236, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,191.
2. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ8J-GZQ : accessed 5 May 2016), Abe Ehrlich, 1917-1918; citing New Orleans City no 11, Louisiana, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,684,924.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV7V-97N : accessed 20 August 2017), Abe Ehrlich in household of Sylvan Kronheims, New Orleans Ward 12, Orleans, Louisiana, United States; citing ED 214, sheet 11A, line 4, family 211, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 623; FHL microfilm 1,820,623.
4. ↑ "Louisiana, Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJZ-3R1M : 15 October 2015), Abe Ehrlich and Gertie C Breaux, 03 May 1940; citing Orleans, Louisiana, United States, various parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 2,320,528.
5. ↑ "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XPBF-1Z9 : 8 April 2016), Abe Ehrlich, 1942; citing NARA microfilm publication M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 8739421 (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8739421)
7. ↑ Information recorded by Carolyn Martin from Grave site, Oak City Cemetery, Bainbridge, Georgia